PROPOSAL ESSAY

Hope for America

Nobody would have thought that our country , America , would go through a financial crisis of such a magnitude as what we are experiencing now But then , some people would say that we had it coming all along . Author Chris Clugston has written at Culture Change that our present condition has been brought on by our incessant fondness for the nice things to buy , fun things to do , exciting places to go to . Indeed , most of us have lived well beyond our means . We thrived in a world where almost

everything was possible - such was the American dream that millions from the rest of the world so wanted to live . It has now become a dream devoid of its original lure . One look at America now would make anybody marvel at how different it has become from the awesome leading economic power that it was before . The people of America have to stand united in a strong resolve to rebuild the country . Otherwise , the America of old would forever be gone

The needed change would be hard to work for . Old habits such as those of so-called shopaholics ' are difficult to give up , and the mindset that considers burgeoning balances in credit card accounts as nothing to be alarmed about will seem to prevail for some time yet . According to the data presented by the Georgia Consortium , university heads have declared that more students had to quit school because of their credit card debts as compared to the...